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The Girl Who Played with Fire

A Lisbeth Salander Novel

Author: Stieg Larsson   Series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series

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The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and fierce heart of its story.

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The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and fierce heart of its story.

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns in the next installment of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series: Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this is a “gripping, stay-up-all-night read” (Entertainment Weekly). • Also known as the Millennium series

The next installment of the Millennium series: Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!

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Critic Reviews

“"The Girl Who Played with Firewill likely confirm Larsson's position as the most successful crime novelist in the world." Slate "Larsson has bottled lightning . . . Formally at least,The Girl Who Played with Fireis a muscle car. But a European engine purrs beneath its hood . . . Itbuzzes with ideas [and] fizzes with fury." Los Angeles Times "A dynamite thriller." Liz Smith,Variety "These books grabbed me and kept me reading with eyes wide open with the same force as the best of the series on the TV monitor . . . Move over, Tony Soprano . . . Blomkvist is a wonderfully appealing character. And the girl of the title is one of the most fascinating characters in modern genre fiction." Alan Cheuse,San Francisco Chronicle "A nail-biting tale of murder and cover-ups in which the victims are tantalizingly hard to distinguish from the villains. . . Believe the hype . . . It's gripping stuff." People "Another gripping, stay-up-all-night read." Entertainment Weekly "Lisbeth Salander [is] one of the most startling, engaging heroines in recent memory . . . Some of the books' appeal comes from the Swedish setting, but most of it is a result of the author writing from the heart, not from a formula. Larsson clearly loved his brave misfit Lisbeth. And so will you." USA Today "The Girl Who Played with Fireconfirms the impression left byDragon Tattoo.Here is a writer with two skills useful in entertaining readers royally: creating characters who are complex, believable, and appealing even when they act against their own best interest; and parceling out information in a consistently enthralling way." Washington Post "Lisbeth Salander was one of the most original and memorable heroines to surface in a recent thriller: picture Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft endowed with Mr. Spock's intense braininess and Scarlett O'Hara's spunky instinct for survival . . . Now Salander is back in an even more central role . . . The reason it works is the same reason thatDragon Tattooworked: Salander and Blomkvist transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader's mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability." Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "A suspenseful, remarkably moving novel . . . This is the best Scandinavian novel to be published in the U.S. sinceSmilla's Sense of Snow. . . Salander is one of those characters who come along only rarely in fiction: a complete original, larger than life yet firmly grounded in realistic detail, utterly independent yet at her core a wounded and”

“[A] gripping, stay-up-all-night read.” Entertainment Weekly
 
“Boasts an intricate, puzzle-like story line ... even as it accelerates toward its startling and violent conclusion.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Gripping stuff.... A nail-biting tale of murder and cover-ups.” People
 
“You might as well give up on the idea of sleep till you’ve finished the book.” Dallas Morning News

“Buzzes with ideas [and] fizzes with fury.”Los Angeles Times
 
“[A] dynamite thriller.” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“Lisbeth Salander [is] one of the most startling, engaging heroines in recent memory.”USA Today
 
“Brilliant.... Grabbed me and kept me reading with eyes wide open.” San Francisco Chronicle
 
“I couldn’t put down The Girl Who Played with Fire and eagerly await book three.... You must find out what happens next.” Newsday
 
“Lisbeth Salander could be the female Jason Bourne ... It’s an intelligent, fascinating story that draws readers in, and keeps them turning the page.”Associated Press

“A combustible new thriller ... Extremely well-written—Larsson’s minimalist prose is frosted with Scandinavian cool.... Burns with blue-flame intensity.... Larsson keeps a tight rein on the bullet-train plot.”San Antonio Express-News

“A dynamite thriller.” —Variety
 
“Fantastic ... Like all the great stories of just avengers that populate literature, this trilogy is secretly comforting, making us think that maybe all is not lost in this imperfect and deceitful world of ours....  Welcome to the immortality of fiction, Lisbeth Salander!”—Mario Vargas Llosa, El País

“Enthralling.... Confirms the impression left by Dragon Tattoo.” —Washington Post
 
“Will likely confirm Larsson’s position as the most successful crime novelist in the world.” —Slate

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About the Author

STIEG LARSSON, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic, right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House USA Inc | Random House Inc
Published
23rd March 2010
Pages
656
ISBN
9780307454553

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